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(VOA): U.S. Senate Republican leaders on Thursday pulled the plug on one of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees over racially insensitive articles he wrote as a college student, marking the first time a Trump appeals court pick was not confirmed. The Republican-led Senate had been..

(VOA): Ten months after Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's electric grid, the local agency responsible for rebuilding it is in chaos and more than $1 billion in federal funds meant to strengthen the rickety system has gone unspent, according to contractors and U.S. officials who are..

(VOA): A tourist boat apparently capsized on a lake Thursday night in Missouri, leaving at least eight people dead and several others hospitalized, a sheriff said. The Springfield News-Leader reported that Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said a Ride the Ducks tourist boat reportedly sank on..

(VOA): The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped last week to its lowest point in more than 48 years as the labor market strengthens further, but trade tensions are casting a shadow over the economy's outlook. Other data on Thursday showed manufacturing..

(VOA): The military parade proposed by President Donald Trump will cost $12 million, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Pentagon officials said the figure was an estimate and could change once the final plan was approved. The $12 million cost is nearly the same as the budget for the now-canceled..

(VOA): U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday the remains of some American servicemen killed in the Korean War would be returned to the U.S. in the coming weeks. The date and the number of sets of remains to be returned were not disclosed. "We think in the next couple weeks..

(VOA): Another day of did he or didn’t he? There is confusion at the White House about whether President Donald Trump again contradicted conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community. During a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the president shook his head and said, “Thank you very..

(VOA): U.S. President Donald Trump's apparent quest to kindle a bromance with Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made some Americans squirm. His performance in Helsinki, expressing confidence in Putin instead of U.S. intelligence agencies, ignited outrage across the political spectrum back..

(VOA): A federal magistrate judge Wednesday ordered Maria Butina, who has been accused of being a Russian agent, held in jail after prosecutors presented evidence alleging she had ties to Russian intelligence services. Butina, a 29-year-old aide to a prominent Russian government official, was..

(VOA): A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators introduced a bill Wednesday threatening sanctions against officials responsible for the violence in Nicaragua. The bill targets those behind the deaths of anti-government protesters, human rights violations and corruption. It also calls..

(VOA): President Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on his long-running criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying in a television interview her immigration policies have been a disaster for Europe. “Angela used to be a superstar until she allowed millions of people to come into..

(VOA): U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley defended the Trump administration's June decision to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying the body is the U.N.'s "greatest failure." Speaking at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington on Wednesday, Haley, who is the..

(VOA): President Donald Trump's tumultuous trip across Europe, historians say, smashed the conventions of American leaders on the world stage. Trump's "America First" approach to foreign policy had him seeming to accept the word of a hostile power over his own intelligence..

(VOA): Nearly half of Americans believe that the United States should not be required to defend NATO allies from attack if they do not spend more on defense, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after U.S. President Donald Trump's trip to Europe. America's NATO..

(VOA): British authorities said private Facebook information, which was gathered by data-mining company Cambridge Analytica without the consent or knowledge of the social media platform’s users, was accessed from computers based in Russia and other former Soviet states. The Information..

(VOA): Thousands of pages of U.S. intelligence documents on Nelson Mandela were made public Wednesday, revealing that Washington continued to monitor the South African anti-apartheid hero as a potential Communist menace even after he was released from prison, a group that sued to obtain the papers..

(VOA): By her early 20s, Maria Butina appeared to have a budding political career and a mini furniture empire in her remote Siberian hometown. Then she abandoned both to pursue her passion for gun rights — and, prosecutors say, to spy on the United States. Butina, 29, faces a hearing Wednesday..

(VOA): Luxury air travel faster than the speed of sound: A US start-up is aiming to revive commercial supersonic flight 50 years after the ill-fated Concorde first took to the skies. Blake Scholl, the former Amazon staffer who co-founded Boom Supersonic, delivered the pledge this week in front..

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